The Book of Akbar 60: The Mint.
Akbar-náma, of Shaikh Abu-l Fazl (Elliot & Dowson, extracts) 60
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[Text, vol. iii. p. 195.] On the 2nd Azar, Muzaffar Khan, Raja Todar Mal, and Khwaja Shah Mansur were summoned to a council at Kot-pakali, where many important matters were discussed and settled. Bihar was given to Shuja’at Khan, Mir Mu’izzu-l Mulk and other adherents. The mint of the Empire, which had been under the management of a chaudhari, was now divided. That of Fathpur was placed under the direction of Khwaja ’Abdu-s Samad, the elegant penman (shirin-kalam); that of Lahore under Muzaffar Khan; of Bengal, under Raja Todar Mal; of Jaunpur, under Khwaja Shah Mansur; of Gujarat, under Khwaja ’Imadu-d din Husain; and of Patna, under Asaf Khan. On the same day an order was issued, directing the coinage of four-cornered rupees.